Hi all,
Just a quick note to announce Thrift's official intention to join the Apache Incubator and introduce ourselves to the Apache list. For those not familiar with Thrift, it's a lightweight system for cross-language programming using code-generation, RPC, and object serialization. It's designed first and foremost to provide high performance in real-time environments (i.e. Facebook's backend, no surprises there). All the information, source code, and a whitepaper are available at: http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ We'll be working on putting together our formal proposal shortly, but the first thing we wanted to solicit the list for was interest in being a Champion/Mentor for the project. Paul Querna has already volunteered to take on either role (or both), but as I understand it we're not limited to having just one person... so please give us a shout if you'd be interested in joining the effort in either of those roles. I'll leave it at that for now. And of course any initial feedback is more than welcome. Cheers, Mark
